When it comes to humour, I can be quite juvenile. And so Family Guy is right up my alley. I am therefore delighted that the show has been spun-off into The Cleveland Show, following Peter Griffin’s best friend Cleveland Brown as he remarries and moves to a new town and such. This means he won’t be on Family Guy any more. HUH? He’s only a cartoon; surely he can manage the time. Anyway, even though the show hasn’t aired in the US yet, Fox have already commissioned a second series. After all, if it doesn’t rate it is still likely to sell a shed load on DVD.
CougarTown
Back in the olden days, before Scrubs got renewed for an entirely unnecessary ninth season, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence had announced he was running away to head up his new show CougarTown.
Starring Courteney Cox, the show is about an older woman who has sex with younger men. Or something. I like Courteney a lot, but I do wish the comedy wasn’t so, well, Scrubsy.
Anyway, have a look and see what you think...
Melrose Place
I have already said how excited/apprehensive I was about the new Melrose Place. Well, today I have had my first look (and you can too, after I stop banging on about it) and I am just as excited/apprehensive.
To call some of the acting wooden and dialogue stilted would be, well, entirely accurate. The building looks similar, but now has a fancy water feature. Oh, and there’s a dead body by the pool – so not much has changed there.
So click away for your first look at Laura Leighton, back from the dead as a no longer redheaded Sydney, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz as a now redhead and, most excitingly, Thomas Calabro!
Lucas as Boyle
Before Susan Boyle (finally) takes to the Britain’s Got Talent stage and either takes out the whole thing or is rather bad and becomes a footnote in youtube history, Heat magazine decided to have Little Britain star Matt Lucas dress up as the formerly bushy-browed Scottish chanteuse. Matt has always been a bit of a chameleon … but it must be said he has outdone himself on this one. Not even Susan herself looks like this any more!
Matt Lucas
Susan Boyle
Scott Keenan Pretend I posted this yesterday o'clock
Tomorrow night in the US Paula Abdul will perform her new single “Here For The Music” on American Idol.
But while it’s new to Paula, the song has been kicking around the net for years as “I’m Just Here For The Music”, a demo performed by Kylie Minogue.
Funnily enough Paula and Kylie have a long history of song swapping. Kylie’s “Spinning Around”, released in 2000, was co-written by Paula and fellow Idol judge Kara DioGuardi (about Paula’s split from ex hubby Emilio Estevez) for a comeback album that never eventuated.
Next up, just last year, Paula recorded Kylie’s song “Boombox”, another song that had been hanging around the internet. This time Kylie decided she quite liked it, had it remixed, and included it on her recent remix album, also called Boombox. Paula had gone as far as to put the song on her website and hint it would be her next single, before it disappeared only to never be mentioned again.
So, that leaves us with her electro-tastic version of “Hear For The Music”. In the olden days Paula would “allegedly” have backing vocalists sing along with her lead to beef up her reed-thin vocals. These days, thanks to technology, they get the robot from Lost In Space to process them.
Despite my scoffing headline, Paula actually picked up two pretty decent tracks that Kylie overlooked in favour of tosh like “Speakerphone” on her last album, so perhaps we should be glad that they are finally being heard by a wider audience.
Or not.
Hey, why don’t you be the judge with my handy side-by-side comparisons?!
As a bonus I have added CoCo Lee’s “爱不停 (Love Doesn't Stop)” which is her Mandarin version of “Boombox”.
Paula Abdul - Boombox
Kylie Minogue - Boombox
Coco Lee - 爱不停 (Love Doesn't Stop)
Paula Abdul – Here For The Music
Kylie Minogue – I’m Just Here For The Music
Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
Cox loves Pitts
After years of no-speakies, it seems Courteney Cox has buried the hatchet with her BFF Jennifer Aniston’s ex-hubby Brad Pitt.
B-rad bumped into Courteney and her hubby David Arquette backstage at a Chris Cornell concert at the Wiltern Theater in LA and they - shock! - all got talking.
“Instead of ignoring him, Courteney chatted away with Brad all night,” a “spy” told the New York Post’s Page Six. “The three were in great spirits and seemed really happy to see each other.”
Well it would have just been awkward not to talk to him, right?
In times past Courteney has seemingly been more willing to call Brad out for doing the dirty on Jen vis-à-vis that strumpet Angelina Jolie than eternal apologist Jen has been.
This is also great news for David, who admitted to radio host Howard Stern that he missed Brad. Maybe Courteney will let them hang out again now?
No, probably not.
The Adventures Of Jon Arbuckle
My life has been changed (virtually) since my mate Matt introduced me to website Garfield Minus Garfield. The site takes each days Garfield cartoon, and deletes the lovable obese tabby so that we can see what Jon’s life would be like if he were talking to thin air rather than his cat. Or something.
Anyway, check it out, it’s minutes of fun.
Shelley laughs off boob-boo
Good old Shelley Craft has had a giggle after finding out about her nipple exposure on the Logies red carpet.
“Perhaps I was subliminally auditioning for Underbelly III,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
That’s the spirit Shell!
Who knows what she’ll show on Domestic Blitz next season!
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